Oregon Historical County Records Guide

Klamath County Records Inventory

Mortgage Records

1874-2000

Series documents the written interest in land providing
security for the performance of a duty or payment of a debt.
Records include mortgages; trustee's deeds of reconveyance;
indexes, both by mortgagor and mortgagee name; and satisfactions.
Information includes mortgagor and mortgagee names, property
descriptions, mortgage terms, witness names, certifications,
recording and satisfaction dates, volume and page numbers where
recorded, and recorder's signature. Series also includes
executor/executrix information when mortgages were transferred
through wills and mortgages of land to individuals under the
provisions of the Donation Land Act of 1850.

Since 1965 mortgages have been recorded in the clerk's Book of
Records (Clerk and Recorder Official Filings). A separate mortgage
index was maintained until 2000.